She felt she served her daughter to Yepez on a "silver platter," she said through tears, according to a news release from the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

Yepez started working at Harvard Elementary in August 1999, said HISD spokeswoman Lila Hollin in an email.

He was still a teacher at the school in October 2013, when law enforcement alerted Houston ISD that he was being investigated. That month, he was moved to an off-campus position, Hollin said.

In December 2014, he stopped working for the Houston ISD.

Another former Harvard Elementary student spoke during the trial, as part of a provision in child abuse cases that allows the jury to hear testimony that demonstrates, among other things, the accused's state of mind and consistency in his or her character or relationship with children, said JoAnne Musick, chief of sex crimes for the district attorney's office.

That former student, now an adult, said Yepez groped her in 2002 while she was attending Harvard Elementary.